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In Search of the Immortals: Mummies, Death and the Afterlife
In Search of the Immortals Mummies Death and the Afterlife
Author: Howard Reid
Everyone knows that the ancient Egyptians were great mummifiers, and their sarcophagi and bandage-wrapped corpses are familiar images to us all. Yet across the vast sweep of history, we find many other great cultures in which the bodies of the dead were preserved as a matter of course. In coastal Peru were the Chinchorros, whose mummifying cul...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780747275558
ISBN-10: 0747275556
Publication Date: 1/1999
Pages: 307
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Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
Book Type: Hardcover
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